The Stolen Years In Zurich Quotes

“I don’t really know what home country means or feels like. I lost it when I was ten. And to be honest, I have given up on the idea and desire of ever finding it again.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“Maybe sharing my story is my duty to bring awareness about delicate topics such as Refugees' fate, discrimination, depression, bullying: false and thoughtless people, who poison your soul with lies, cheats and betrayal to achieve their own goals at your cost.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“The fundament for a normal life was stolen once I became a refugee, and the result was predictable. After more than two decades of constant fight for acceptance and integration, I ended up having anxiety and depression.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“When the government tells you to your face, after a decade, to either marry or leave the country, and you marry the wrong guy for the wrong reasons, your whole future is screwed.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“I feel as my whole childhood, teenager hood and adulthood was stolen only in order to be allowed to stay in Switzerland.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“I was raised like a princess in my home country, and the new start as a child war refugee in Switzerland was my emotional suicide. My childhood was immediately over!”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“My mom is my BFF and the most loving, caring, understanding, independent and gifted woman I know. Without her strength, optimism and belief, we two wouldn’t have made it. Life was not easy on both of us. We had to overcome many obstacles and disappointments. If anyone else had experienced what my mom had as a single-mother, they wouldn’t have survived life.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“It was extremely challenging to spend months in a refugee house (in a room of 15 m) with complete strangers; families that I didn’t know. My happy world fell apart. Everything and everyone I knew was gone. My childhood was over, and I had to grow up fast in a country, where I felt unwelcomed and rejected from minute one.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“My experience and fear of death during the daily bombings in my hometown were NOTHING comparing to what we faced later than as refugees in Switzerland for over two decades!”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“We all wish a fearless and safe life. And that’s our human right, regardless of where we come from.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“People always assume that war only happens in other countries. The truth is, our world is, was and sadly will always be a bad place. Why? Because of the stupidity of some “powerful” people who are ruling/destroying our world for nothing but greed for more power and wealth. These people forget that none of us will live forever!”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich

“Living in a war zone from one day to another is one of the most horrifying experiences in Life, whether you’re an adult or a kid. As a kid, you don’t really understand what’s going on because not even the adults know how to deal with this life-changing situation. I still remember and feel the uncertainty, insecurity and fear of death.”
― Lily Amis, The Stolen Years In Zurich